Chad Chisholm is originally from Clinton, Mississippi, and he graduated from Clinton High School in 1996. He works in Holly Springs, but Chisholm splits his time between that community and Clinton. Chisholm teaches English at Rust College, where he was elected to the president's cabinet by the faculty in 2006 and a William Winter Scholar by the humanities division in 2007. He has published in the South Carolina Review, the Connecticut Review, and the Mississippi Encyclopedia.